Nestling
['nes(t)lɪŋ] or ['nɛstlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nestle
(n.) A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.
(n.) A nest; a receptacle.
(a.) Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.
Typed by Blanche
Examples
- The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She lay still, nestling against him, but unyielding. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- By her side, and nestling closely to her, is a young girl of fifteen,--her daughter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'm bored by the reSt.' 'Yes,' she murmured, nestling very sweet and close to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I slightly turned from him, nestling still closer under the wing of silence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then her spirit came home to him, nestling unconscious in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her clasp, and the nestling action with which she pressed her cheek to mine, made me almost cry with a tender pain. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They either build a nest of their own or seize on one belonging to some other bird, occasionally throwing out the nestlings of the stranger. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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